In the last edition I explained how an icy heart can be melted by applying frozen fish. What I did not explain was that the whole Scottish Navy was, at that time, a hot-bed of bribery and, well, bribery. My first foray was so successful that I decided there were bigger fish to fry and embarked upon a rather more ambitious example of piscatorial payola. Little did I imagine, when I set out on a path of senior subornation, exactly where this pernicious peccadillo would eventually lead (Alright, I’ll stop now). In a classic example of the law of unintended consequences it resulted in our carrying…
